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Mom Still Does Their Laundry - Red Flag or Deal Breaker?

Lynnie, on August 13, 2019 at 11:05 AM Posted in Family and Relationships 0 61

We all have to grow up eventually! If you found out your S.O.'s mom still did their laundry, would that be a complete deal breaker? Or just a red flag you might want to address?

Red Flag or Deal Breaker?


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Latest activity by Emilia, on July 14, 2021 at 2:08 PM
  • Tamera
    Expert May 2020
    Tamera ·
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    Red flag. I know that he did his own laundry in high school and college, and I do most of the laundry in the relationship now, so not a big deal.

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  • M
    Legend June 2019
    Melle ·
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    Red flag !
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  • Meghan
    Master October 2019
    Meghan ·
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    Red flag, that I would have to address very quickly!
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  • Allie
    Master August 2019
    Allie ·
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    Red flag. My mom still does our laundry sometimes. To me, it's not a big deal. He does his own 99% of the time.

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  • Kaitlyn
    Dedicated July 2020
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    Red flag. We do our own laundry anyways.
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  • Brianna N
    Super October 2019
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    Red Flag, but I feel like this is something easily worked out. Not a game changer!

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  • Kelly
    VIP October 2020
    Kelly ·
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    If he lives with her then I don't care. But if he takes his laundry over to her house for no reason that'd be strange!
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  • Denise
    Super September 2019
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    Red Flag. I actually had to break him of this habit when he moved in with me

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  • Yam
    VIP September 2019
    Yam ·
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    Deal Breaker. I wouldn’t marry someone unless they cut the apron strings. I’m going to be a wife, not a second mother.
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  • April
    Dedicated November 2020
    April ·
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    Red flag, I do my FH’s laundry now.. his mother did the same. Not a deal breaker for me, just is what it is!
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  • Jessica
    Master September 2020
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    Huge red flag, I think doing your own laundry is an important step toward self sufficiency.
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  • Anna
    Savvy August 2020
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    It depends on why she’s doing it.
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  • Birdie
    Savvy June 2021
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    Deal breaker. I don't want to be anyone's replacement mother.

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  • Sara
    Expert October 2020
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    Soooo... I don't have a problem with this. FH did his own laundry when we first met, but I lived with my mom and she did my laundry. My mom then offered to do his laundry. He didn't have a machine and he was coming over to do his laundry and she eventually just said she would do it. Things like this are my moms way of showing love. She still asks if we need help with laundry and sometimes I will have FH drop some off to her and she will wash and fold everything and tell him when its ready to be picked up.

    When FH's mother found out my mom was doing his laundry she called him pathetic in front of his entire family and both him and I got really upset, but he didn't stop

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  • Laura
    Expert September 2019
    Laura ·
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    That's a huge red flag for me! I would be worried that he hasn't fully grown up to do his own chores.

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  • D
    Super July 2020
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    Big red flag!! I want a grown up in my relationship not just a grown up child.
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  • Erin
    Expert May 2020
    Erin ·
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    I think it'd be a red flag, but not a deal breaker. Thankfully, FH does his own!

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  • Cher Horowitz
    Master December 2019
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    Honestly not that bothered. Whenever FH goes home to visit his mom, she does his laundry occasionally.

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  • Mrsbdg
    Champion August 2017
    Mrsbdg ·
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    If he’s unwilling to learn: Deal breaker

    Im marrying a partner not a child.
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  • MD
    Super July 2019
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    Red flag, for sure. But not something I'd end it over.

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